Interactions between integrated pest management, pollinator supplementation, and normalized difference vegetation index in pumpkin, <i>Cucurbita maxima</i> (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae), production

Waithaka, Nduta A; Kasina, Muo; Samita, Namikoye E; Guantai, Mary M; Omuse, Evanson R; Toukem, Nadia K; Lattorff, H Michael G; Abdel-Rahman, Elfatih M; Adan, Marian; Mohamed, Samira A; Dubois, Thomas

doi:10.1093/ee/nvad035

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“…By focusing on actions that jointly benefit both control of crop pests and crop pollination and minimize conflicts between them, an Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM) framework, applied in the context of agri‐ecosystems, may help to support both sustainable agricultual production and protection of pollinators. However, recent articles advocating this IPPM approach have arisen mostly in Europe (Belien et al., 2021 ; Egan et al., 2020 ; Lundin et al., 2021 ; Merle et al., 2022 ), North America (Bloom et al., 2022 ; Braman & Griffin, 2022 ; Leach et al., 2022 ; Okosun & Reddy, 2022 ; Pecenka et al., 2023 ; Penn et al., 2021 ), Africa (Adan et al., 2021 ; Toukem et al., 2022 ; Waithaka et al., 2023 ; Wangithi et al., 2022 ), and Asia (Jung, 2021 ; Jung & Shin, 2022 ; Wyckhuys et al., 2023 ), with none arising in Australasia. Sustainable agriculture and pollination …”

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Pollination crisis Down‐Under: Has Australasia dodged the bullet?

Pyke,

Prendergast,

Ren

2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Since mid‐1990s, concerns have increased about a human‐induced “pollination crisis.” Threats have been identified to animals that act as plant pollinators, plants pollinated by these animals, and consequently human well‐being. Threatening processes include loss of natural habitat, climate change, pesticide use, pathogen spread, and introduced species. However, concern has mostly been during last 10–15 years and from Europe and North America, with Australasia, known as Down‐Under, receiving little attention. So perhaps Australasia has “dodged the bullet”? We systematically reviewed the published literature relating to the “pollination crisis” via Web of Science, focusing on issues amenable to this approach. Across these issues, we found a steep increase in publications over the last few decades and a major geographic bias towards Europe and North America, with relatively little attention in Australasia. While publications from Australasia are underrepresented, factors responsible elsewhere for causing the “pollination crisis” commonly occur in Australasia, so this lack of coverage probably reflects a lack of awareness rather than the absence of a problem. In other words, Australasia has not “dodged the bullet” and should take immediate action to address and mitigate its own “pollination crisis.” Sensible steps would include increased taxonomic work on suspected plant pollinators, protection for pollinator populations threatened with extinction, establishing long‐term monitoring of plant–pollinator relationships, incorporating pollination into sustainable agriculture, restricting the use of various pesticides, adopting an Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management approach, and developing partnerships with First Nations peoples for research, conservation and management of plants and their pollinators. Appropriate Government policy, funding and regulation could help.

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